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...British Admiralty retorted that 30 Nazi supply and transport ships had been sunk, scuttled or captured in the Scandinavian campaign, of which the French claimed...
...doubt in Scandinavian minds that the Allies would strike quickly in their behalf, any doubt in German minds that the Allies would strike hard, were swept away last week. In addition to Great Britain's ships and men at Narvik, Allied Expeditionary Forces swarmed into western fjords of Norway at six more points. Planes, warships and minesweepers cleared the way for troopships, out of which marched men of the West to avenge the people of the North. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill had promised that Allied troops will "use this summer to purge and cleanse the soil...
...Allied plan was to sweep them out from the top down. If this sweep should force Germany to violate Swedish neutrality, so much the better, perhaps, for the Allies. For then the Northern Front would be a front indeed, with one more Ally on it, with Germany's Scandinavian iron supply entirely cut off, and with potential bases extending southward to within 200 miles (one hour by bomber) of Berlin...
Nine months ago Sweden felt she could look on the swelling pride of Germany and Russia with relative complacence. She was the geographical centre of a ring of seven well-disposed, small, but collectively considerable, Baltic and Scandinavian States: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, Norway. One or another of them might be threatened, but it was hardly plausible that a nation ringed around with seven such neighbors would have to face the worst...
...conveniently close to Salonika. His submarine fleet, estimated at 135 (the largest of any country in the world), went to the midMediterranean and lower Adriatic. Rejected reservists of the 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 classes were called for service. "Laborers" in steel hats continued to arrive in Albania. The Scandinavian campaign was represented in the press as one long succession of Nazi victories, and German and Italian joint military missions began surveying all phases of armed cooperation...